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About Quiz # 255: 1912 Ariès
As both background cars in last week's quiz were
Simca’s they could have given you the clue that we wanted you to name a French make. Indeed, all answers we received were correct in identifying our quiz car as an Ariès, but we do admit there were few answers! Four from our jury members David Green, Frans Vrijaldenhoven, João Pedro Gazineu and Paul Linster and three others Jean Pierre Becret, Gaurav Sawant and Fried Stol. From these last three we had no trouble pointing to Fried Stol as the winner, because of his complete answer: “Count Charles Petiet founded the Ariès company in 1903. The first models had a 2 cyl engine made by Aster. The car shown is
probably a Type S5 made in 1912. In the UK the first cars were imported as Asters named after the engine builder (Editor: from 1904 to 1906 also as Anglian). From 1910 main business was concentrated on commercial vehicles and aero engines. In 1938 production seized.” Congratulations Fried on your second win!
We received these pictures from John Scales, whose father was a Chrysler engineer working at Simca in the 50's-60's and volunteered with his buddies to restore the car. The goal was to get it ready for the
1963 Paris-Geneve-Turin rally sponsored by L'Automobile Club de L'Ouest. John thinks
the Ariès belonged to the family of Mr. Rousseau, head of engineering at Simca in the 1950's-60's. He may have been related to the founder of Aries, Baron Petiet. John really would like to know if this Ariès still exists. Can we help him?
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Friday, 31 July 2009
As both background cars in last week's quiz were Simca’s they could have given you the clue that we wanted you to name a French make. Indeed, all answers we received were correct in identifying our quiz car as an Ariès, but we do admit there were few answers! Four from our jury members David Green, Frans Vrijaldenhoven, João Pedro Gazineu and Paul Linster and three others Jean Pierre Becret, Gaurav Sawant and Fried Stol. From these last three we had no trouble pointing to Fried Stol as the winner, because of his complete answer: “Count Charles Petiet founded the Ariès company in 1903. The first models had a 2 cyl engine made by Aster. The car shown is probably a Type S5 made in 1912. In the UK the first cars were imported as Asters named after the engine builder (Editor: from 1904 to 1906 also as Anglian). From 1910 main business was concentrated on commercial vehicles and aero engines. In 1938 production seized.” Congratulations Fried on your second win! 
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